Are you Struggling?
What are you struggling with right now?
(My usual post schedule is a little mixed up this week due to school holidays. Pop in tomorrow for a fun printable activity to do with your kids.)
What are you struggling with right now?
(My usual post schedule is a little mixed up this week due to school holidays. Pop in tomorrow for a fun printable activity to do with your kids.)
Kate is a mum of four, with a degree in early childhood education, and many years experience as an early years teacher and parent educator.
Kate created picklebums to help parents and teachers find lots of play-based activities and printables for kids aged 2-10.
It’s like you’ve read my mind Kate! Love the quote. Oh where to begin… the endless laundry, the constant cycle of feeding and cleaning, the squabbles, the sorting out of squabbles… that ever so annoying endless string of ‘Why?’ questions – then there’s the comparing myself with other parents…(I just can’t help myself!). xo P
I’m having a bad laundry week too… just for a change I’d like to miss a day of washing and not have everything go to crap! LOL
And we have to work on stopping the comparisons… I try to nip it in the bud when I find myself doing it by saying it is ok to think about how others are doing things and weigh that new info up against how I do things, but not ok to let that new info bring me down!
Have to admit I’m struggling with a whole lot of things at the moment. As someone once told me just take it day by day and when that’s too hard you do it hour by hour, and when you can’t do that you do it minute by minute and somehow you get through a day and then another and that turns into a week, and a month.
that is great advice… I tend to fall back on the good old ‘just keep swimming… just keep swimming’ when things get rough.
Love it! Your reminding me that I haven’t watched Finding Nemo is ages!!! Might have to pull it out this weekend :)
Some days I do. And then I go through “I only have one child so I shouldn’t struggle” stuff.
Lately I just remind myself to breathe and remember it’s really not so bad!
Everyone struggles… no matter how many kids they have, or even if they don’t have kids! Some days are tough for a reason we can understand, and some days are just hard… but hopefully there are more good days than bad.
Biggest challenges by far are my boys’ endless fighting, and my own reactions to it. I start out most days doing so well. I’m in the “loving adult” mode and I am refereeing their fights without letting it get to me. But they wear me down. They are ages 2 and 3 and by the end of each day, I am just so. freaking. exhausted.– emotionally, mentally, and physically– with trying to break up the fights. I find myself questioning why they do this– why all the grabbing and hitting and slapping and shoving and pushing and screaming and kicking? Is there something WRONG with them? And why doesn’t anything I’m doing to fix it, change it, manage it seem to be remotely working? I mostly try to stick with “positive parenting” responses, but I can’t just sit on the sidelines. My boys are so physical with each other and with me that I have to get in the middle to prevent injuries. Then *I* am often the one getting slapped or kicked. Repeatedly.
Yes, there’s anger about this on the surface. A natural human reaction. But underneath that, I just feel tremendous sadness. This is not even remotely, not even 1% fun or enjoyable. I find myself just hating my job, and pretty convinced that I suck at it.
i love this quote
You must have read my mind… I’m living on struggle street at the moment – however I really don’t feel like I have any ‘reason’ to be feeling this way. At the end of the day I have a healthy and happy family so I really need to have a reality check! But juggling 4 jobs from home, raising 2 gorgeous monkeys (one at kindy 2 days a week, one at home fulltime), trying to keep my home from looking like a permanent shambles and 6 months pregnant with bubba #3, means that I do struggle some days – today I’m just plain tired.
However strange (and sadistic) it sounds, it is nice to see other people admitting they struggle – there is so much pressure for us all to be ‘supermums’ and raise perfect children in Pinterest designed homes! Currently you could swim through the Lego on the floor of our living room :)
School Holidays. Nothing has gone as planned.
One child had an ear infection, the other asthma. We kicked things off with nit infestation.
I want a re-do.
I have only just stumbled upon your website (blog?) and amazingly came across this post. I say “amazingly” because I am struggling so much at the moment and I related so much to Ruby’s (July 10, 2:28pm) post, about how she starts each day trying to be optimistic but come evening time she is totally shattered and feeling an overwhelming sadness (that’s the part that really got to me). I have a daughter of ten and a baby boy of 14 months and since he was born any normal life has just flown out the window. And I am a person who needs ‘normal’, I am no good with change!
and yes, there does seem to be this pressure to be a ‘super mom’, to have a successful job, be the perfect parent, the great wife and best friend etc and I am failing miserably! I don’t think I am managing any of them. I think the relationship that is struggling the most is the one between my husband and I.
there just never seems to be any time for US.
Oh, and I hate school holidays.
Summer holidays feel like the longest for me, my boyfriend has two little girls 4 and 6, and we have a 10 month old son. Somedays i feel like im going to go crazy, laundry keep piling up its so stressful